Melody E. Valdini, "The Inclusion Calculation: Why Men Appropriate Women's Representation" (Oxford UP, 2019)

In Conversation: An OUP Podcast · Dec 3, 2020 · 50m

The thematic research question in The Inclusion Calculation: Why Men Appropriate Women’s Representation (Oxford UP, 2019) is whether there is a distinction between women’s power itself and the strategic value of having women in power, and, within this distinction, what is it that men get out of women in power. This is a fascinating interrogation because it approaches the idea of women’s power – particularly what we consider to be political power – from a somewhat novel perspective, the rational calculus of those in power (not women) about what this might mean and how it might impact those in…